u/eldenringer1233

I know intelligent people who have this "thing" where if Elon or someone rich is criticized, they feel compelled to defend him. And to an infinite degree - they will defend him and justify everything he does to a point where it looks like religious worship.
Even if they display good intelligence in the rest of their life...its like some sort of emotional thing when it comes to defending billionaires.
it some sort of instinct to worship authority? You can literally see an otherwise reasonable person's brain suddenly beging to compartmentalize when they start to bootlick a rich person.

Could it be that deep down they have some dream to one day become like Elon (the American dream that you have to be asleep to actually believe) and criticizing him threatens their dreams? Maybe that's it - a part of the culture in all developed capitalist countries is the belief that if you work hard you'll become Bezos or Musk (in reality you won't lol).

Maybe our culture is just predisposed to billionaire worship, a type of idolatry?

I keep remembering this quote:

“Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. If self-deception promotes fitness, the brain lies. Stops noticing—irrelevant things. Truth never matters. Only fitness. By now you don’t experience the world as it exists at all. You experience a simulation built from assumptions. Shortcuts. Lies. Whole species is agnosiac by default.”

― Peter Watts, Blindsight

I think it's more of an emotional problem than an intelligence problem - people who gave otherwise good reasoning ability and abstract thinking, can fall into this trap.

There will be infinite anniversaries, so it's just a matter of probability and statistics. There is no need to lose hope, there is always next time.

Did Bloodborne 2 believers give up? No, because they know that every year there is a non-zero chance (as the only way the chance of a sequel being developed to be exactly 0 is if humanity goes extinct and no other intelligent species starts producing videogames)

They just gotta make good on their deal with Nintendo to finish the Duskbloods and the Tarnished edition and now that Nightreign exceeded their financial expectations, in the next fiscal year they will allocate more budget. Trust.

When the game came out, we were all in the same boat. New game, sense of awe, akward first runs, figuring out routes, builds, how the characters work, all the funny memes about BBH. We were all in it together.

Then the exciting anticipation for each next everdark.

Then the weekly hunting of everdarks for sigils.

By the time DoN came out, we already smoothed out our learning curve - even if you had never played a soulslike game before, just running the full gauntlet, all the expeditions and everdarks, before DoN came out, would have made it infinitely easier to get into it.

Currently newcomers are in a weird spot:

1. They need to beat the night aspect to reach DoN
2. But to beat Heolstor they don't need to do all expeditions
3. There is a risk they get hard carried on Heolstor and then leap into deep of night immediately

There is also still no leaver penalty, so in addition to the ever longer wait times, newcomers will have to deal with leavers as well and when they enter DoN, once again they'll be dealing with leavers in depth 1 and 2, the "elo hell"

What I am trying to say is, the way things are going, brand new players will not get the full Nightreign experience that we had when we started the game when it came out.

They will have some akward experience of endless wait times for queues, for some expeditions like Everdark Maris they may actually be forced to go solo (good luck with that steep learning curve if you are someone who's never played a soulslike)

Is it not healthy for the game to have a stable environment where newcomers can grow? The game was a big success and many who have not even played the base Elden Ring, have come to Nightreign.
But right now at this moment, if a brand new player comes in, who has never played a soulslike, will they have a good experience? Or an akward mess of long wait times, leavers, being forced to solo what they thought was a co-op game, etc.

Imagine if Fromsoftware added some sort of incentive for higher ranked players to occasionally play unranked. Maybe more guarantted sigils once per week? It would decrease queue times for new players and also provide them with sort of "coaches" to smooth in their introduction to the game, just enough so they can develop the basic skills and not get frustrated and quit. And in turn this would increase the player pool and benefit all.

That's just my 2 cents, I think the game is heading to a place where it will be akward for brand new players, but they are the future life blood of the game

I have been using the Pro subscription for a long time now and honestly even with its ups and downs it has been worth the price.
By worth the price I mean that at this current point in my career, the 200$ per month is offsetted by whatever convenience the pro model has given me. This is very subjective of course, every person has different preferences.

I'm thinking of trying Codex and I one thing I have been wondering. especially for users who have both Codex and the highest Pro plan:

1. Are there tasks where Codex consistently fails but the extended Pro model succeeds? Do you have some common list of tips on which tasks to offload to which model?

2. Did you have any privacy concerns, does Codex get access to every file in the repo? I don't store credentials anywhere in my repos, but it still feels wrong if my code can be taken without my knowledge. Again this is subjective, I don't have any secret new inventions to be stolen, but it is a personal preference, I'm sure many feel the same.

3. Is there any way to integrate it with Visual Studio specifically (not Visual Studio Code). Or if not directly, then does the Codex desktop app get along well with VS when you let it edit files that are currently open in VS?

Campaign spoilers ahead:

This quesiton was sparked due to something that happened in the campaign - Lilith sacrificed herself for you and then faded away in a white light peacefully.

This is something unprecedented, how can a demon do self-sacrifice? How can a demon love or care about anything? She did the demon's equivalent of fallen angels, she did something against the demon's nature.

I think there's a sizeable chance she either makes one last appearance down the line of further expansions, if not as an angel than maybe some being that is in a grey area.

Remember how Izual turned into a full-blown demon.
I am also expecting a fully fallen Inarius to show up at some point, as he got dragged into hell and got his wings torn off. Inarius and Lilith switching their places as angel/demon would be hilarious.

From the moment I bought D4, I always wondered "why can't the nodes actually alter my skills instead of just adding stats"
"why can't i have a progression tree like other arpgs (the new war plans)"

THIS is what I always wanted. Let me experiment with endless builds. Dont put me in a box which is the current meta. I dont want to be limited by 2 builds each season. Let me play my way.

Diablo 4 is finally on the right track and even if it's not perfect, the fact that they changed course fills me with hope. I play other ARPGs but Diablo has a special place in my heart, Diablo is always in a category of its own.

I know I'll get my moneys worth cause I'll try a bunch of builds for every character type lol

I am using the 200$ version with extended thinking and while I was originally shocked at how much faster it is than 5.4, it seems to be...skipping through too much of the context?

It keeps making things up, like for instance I gave it a C++ class with some instructions to alter it, and it added methods that already existed, so its change was basically reimplementing half of the class for no reason. When I told it what its mistake was, it agreed that it made a mistake and retried, but this type of thing has been happening consistently now, and I hadn't seen such hallucinations since the GPT4 times.

I guess it's cutting costs and time, but at the expense of not actually fully reading what you sent it?

Has anyone noticed the same thing? I never had this issue with 5.4, even when I would give it massive files to search through. But now this happens with 5.5 even with prompts with about 800 lines in it.

We saw both shots from the ruined church of Marika and the stakes near it and the Market scene where Marika and an Omen or Hornsent kid walks behind her (Morgott?)

So the movie is probably going to be post-shattering but we will be getting sad flashbacks of Morgott (he will probably show up as Margit as the main movie villain, constantly ambushing Kit Connor), and judging by Marika's braids this is probably the ancient age of the Erdtree before the sap ran dray, before golden order fundamentalism.

However it's very uncanny that she walks in the markets, a living goddess that holds the controls of reality, and people are just passing by her. Possibly everyone was just chill like that in that ancient age? We always saw her as this grander than life terrifying god figure, almost eldritch and unknowable in nature.

I just hope they don't totally remove the mystery of her and her aura.